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The latest from Newbery Honor winner Jennifer L. Holm is a seventh-grader's overly dramatic account of a new school year. A scrapbook of candy wrappers, instant messages, postcards and receipts helps to convey the story of Ginny Davis' middle school trials. Middle School Is Worse than Meatloaf is at the same time both comical and insightful. Ginny writes haikus about meatloaf and an essay...